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It's important that things fall into the public domain: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/why/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/20
by beej71 4y ago
It's important that things fall into the public domain: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/why/ https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/why/
> All that will happen is we'll get a bunch of knockoff Mickey Mouse products.
For me, this was never about Disney. It was always about the gigantic amounts of non-Disney works that Disney has prevented from falling into the public domain.
My vote as an author and software developer is that copyright lasts 14 years plus a one time 14-year renewal, the original term.
I might agree to 28+14, but anything more is a net loss when considering the greater good.